This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them

Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play

Nina Raine should know. Her father, a critic, once told her: `Your business is not to be worrying about people’s feelings. Because otherwise you will never write'

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

Irish organisations facilitate integration abroad, especially for vulnerable people

There's more to the picnic than the main stage

Skibberceannaigh has many dark secrets; unearthing them proves trickier than imagined

Waking the Feminists meeting hears call for equal advancement of women artists

Is gingerism light-hearted fun, or the seeds of a more malevolent prejudice?

We often talk of young professionals emigrating, ignoring those who leave with little education

The characters in playwright Brian Martin’s controversial debut play are each experiencing a crisis in faith. But is it believable?

Brian Martin’s first play is about a paedophile priest struggling to suppress his desires. It’s a bit like learning to open up a can of worms with a chainsaw